When Army equipment fails, the speed with which maintenance technicians can restore it to mission-ready condition depends critically on the availability of needed spare parts. The Army wished to improve the algorithm used to compute the proper levels of inventory to stock in its repair facilities. This monograph describes how the Army’s Distribution Management initiative (formerly known as V......

Standing Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals contains a detailed and comprehensive methodology for developing acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for toxic substances from inhalation exposures. The book provides guidance on what documents and databases to use, toxicity endpoints that need to be evaluated, dosimetry corrections from anima......

This book is the eighth volume in the series Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, and reviews AEGLs for acrolein, carbon monoxide, 1,2-dichloroethene, ethylenimine, fluorine, hydrazine, peracetic acid, propylenimine, and sulfur dioxide for scientific accuracy, completeness, and consistency with the NRC guideline reports.......

This book is the ninth volume in the series Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, and reviews AEGLs for bromine, ethylene oxide, furan, hydrogen sulfide, propylene oxide, and xylenes.......

Presenting the results of educational assessments to lay audiences requires a difficult balance between accuracy and simplicity. This study investigates the effectiveness with which the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has communicated information about the performance of American students to the print media. In the case of the 1990 assessment of mathematics, NAEP tried two metho......

The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a household survey conducted periodically by the Department of Education that evaluates the literacy skills of a sample of adults in the United Stages ages 16 and older. NAAL results are used to characterize adultsliteracy skills and to inform policy and programmatic decisions. The Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy was convened a......